The recent media storm over Amazonian flames recently caught up with me – here’s the result, in French, published in La Liberté (Fribourg), Le Nouvelliste (Sion), and Le Courrier (Genève), and in pdf. I laud the journalist Thierry Jacolet for his efforts to understand and not just populate preconceived soundbites with academic authority. Read the rest of this entry »
Les feux en Amazonie et ailleurs
September 2, 2019
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Vegetation fire and cultural landscapes in Fiji
March 8, 2014There are three main types of fire in Fiji. Sugar cane farmers burn their fields to facilitate hand harvesting. Village farmers clear forest plots, fallow fields, and secondary vegetation for diverse crops using fire. And finally, the fires that cover the most ground are those set in the grasslands of the drier, lee-side of the islands. And of course there are occasionally fires that cause trouble – late last year I saw a major fire burning through the pine plantations in southeastern Viti Levu.
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- Sugar cane burns at night south of Nadi, Fiji
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- Fire scar from grassland fire, southeastern tip of Vanua Levu, Fiji
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- Uplands in the centre of Viti Levu (Fiji): a pyrocultural landscape
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- A grassy hill burns at dusk on village land, southeastern tip of Vanua Levu, Fiji
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- Farmer heading to his fields with fire stick, Tailevu, Viti Levu
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- Close up of fire stick
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